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Iraq elects Nizar Amidi as president, ending months of political deadlock

April 12th, 2026 - 07:57 GMT

Mansour Al-Maswari

Iraq elects Nizar Amidi as president, ending months of political deadlock

ALBAWABA- Iraq’s parliament elected Nizar Mohammed Saeed Amidi as president on Saturday, ending a five-month political stalemate following the November 2025 elections. Amidi secured 227 votes in the second round of parliamentary voting, with 249 lawmakers present, defeating his rival Muthanna Amin of the Kurdistan Islamic Union, who received 15 votes. He had previously led the first round with 208 votes but fell short of the two-thirds majority required. A ...

Almost 6,000 individuals have been killed in Iraq in 2013 alone (AFP)

September 25th, 2013 - 04:14 GMT

10 more killed in Iraq, 2013 death toll closing in on 6,000

A Kurd young boy cross a street under blue flags, emblazoned with a candle, of the Movement for Change (MC) (aka Goran) displayed in the streets as part of the campaign for Kurdistan's parliamentary elections on September 18, 2013 in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimaniyah. (AFP)

September 22nd, 2013 - 08:08 GMT

Iraqi Kurd election vote counting gets underway

Remains of car bomb explosion at Baghdad funeral. [thejournal]

September 21st, 2013 - 06:32 GMT

Triple car bomb kills 53 during Iraqi funeral

Friday bombings in Iraq part of growing sectarian violence near Baghdad

September 20th, 2013 - 12:14 GMT

Sunni mosque bombing near Baghdad kills 15

Nearly three million Iraqi Kurds are eligible to vote in Saturday's elections (Courtesy of Shutterstock)

September 19th, 2013 - 01:14 GMT

Final rallies held in preparation for Saturday's KRG vote

Iraqi children inspect a burnt-out car at the site of a car bomb attack that exploded the previous day in a commercial street of Baghdad's eastern neighbourhood of Mashtal on Monday. On Tuesday, a fresh wave of violence across the country killed at least 24 people. (AFP)

September 17th, 2013 - 04:31 GMT

At least 24 dead in fresh wave of Iraq violence

An Iraqi child stands by the wreckage of a burnt car on the site of a car bomb explosion in the city of Suweirah, south of Baghdad, on Sunday. A wave of attacks across Iraq, including more than a dozen car bombs, killed at least 30 people while the head of Baghdad's provincial council escaped assassination. (AFP)

September 15th, 2013 - 05:33 GMT

At least 46 dead in wave of car bombs, shootings across Iraq

Iraqis carry the coffin of one of the victims of the attack on a Shiite mosque. [AFP]

September 14th, 2013 - 02:30 GMT

Suicide bomb kills 24 at Iraqi funeral

Iraq double mosque bombing. [resources3]

September 13th, 2013 - 12:42 GMT

30 dead in Iraq after double car bomb

More than 35 Shiite Muslim worshippers were killed Wednesday after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a mosque in Baghdad. Here, a woman walks past the wreckage of a car bomb attack in Baghdad in May (AFP/File)

September 11th, 2013 - 06:27 GMT

More than 35 dead after suicide bomber targets Baghdad Shiite mosque

A man smokes infront of the wreckage of a car bomb in Baghdad earlier this year. Five people in Baquba, north of the capital, died after a car bomb exploded on Tuesday. (AFP/File)

September 10th, 2013 - 11:17 GMT

Five dead in Iraq car bomb attack

Iraqi men inspect the site of an explosion on September 4, 2013 that took place the previous day in Baghdad. Al Qaeda's Iraqi faction, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has taken responsibility for the attacks. (AFP)

September 8th, 2013 - 03:47 GMT

Iraqi Al Qaeda claim bomb attacks that killed 50